Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Stephen Jay Gould

352 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived--a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome det...

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